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What is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)?
PCOS affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age.
It is caused by an imbalance of your reproductive hormones. This imbalance has a flow-on effect on your ovaries, their production of eggs, ovulation and the regularity of your menstrual cycle. This disruption can lead to infertility problems and the development of cysts that develop on the ovaries which may or may not burst.
Signs and symptoms?
- Do you have irregular periods?
- Do you feel you have too much hair on some parts of your body?
- Are you experiencing weight gain or finding it difficult to lose weight?
- Are you suffering from adult acne on your face, chest or upper back?
Contributing factors to PCOS?
- Do any members of your extended family have PCOS?
- Do any members of your family have type one or 2 diabetes?
- What are your stress and anxiety levels? - higher levels can contribute to higher risk factors for PCOS
- Poor diet and lack of exercise can also contribute to higher risk.
- Sometimes poor sleep can be an additional link in the cause but also in the management of PCOS.
How can we help?
Physiotherapy for PCOS?
- PCOS management is about understanding the underlying risk factors that are relevant to you.
- Understanding that stress and anxiety can exacerbate your symptoms
- Getting a great medical team behind you to assist with hormonal management
- Understanding how cardiovascular exercise is important to your long-term health
- Maintaining a healthy weight does make a difference to your symptoms
Our Physios will discuss all these things but we will help manage how your PCOS may also affect your bladder bowel or intimacy function.
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